436 CAILiNGID^. 



30. Caranx ire. 

 Cuv. ^ Val. ix. p. 57. 



D.8|^. A.2|i L.lat. 30-34. 



The teeth in both the jaws are in a narrow villiform band. The 

 height of the body is 35-3^ va. the total length, the length of the 

 head 4-4|, the length of the pectoral 4|-5. The lateral hne is 

 slightly bent, and becomes straight below the anterior quarter of the 

 dorsal ; its plates are moderate. Opercular spot none ; the second 

 dorsal with a large black blotch on the top. 



Coast of Pondicherry ; Sea of Madras. 

 a. Adult. Madi'as. Presented by T. C. Jerdon, Esq. 

 6. Half-grown. 



31. Caranx prseustus. 



Caranx prasustus, Bennett, Life of Raffles, p. 689. 

 Carangoides prgeustus, Sleeker, Makr. p. 363, and Verh. Bat. Gen. 

 xxiv. Makr. p. 60. 



I>-8|.iV.- A.2|l. L.lat. 20-30. 



The teeth in both the jaws fonn viLliform bands ; teeth on the 

 vomer, the palatine bones, and on the tongue. The height of the 

 body is 3^-31 in the total length, the length of the head 4-4^. 

 The snout is rather pointed, wath the jaws equal ; the upper max- 

 Ulary reaches beyond the vertical from the anterior margin of the 

 eye. Breast scaly ; the lateral line is moderately bent, and becomes 

 straight below the second third of the soft dorsal ; the plates are of 

 moderate size. The soft dorsal anteriorly deep black, with the top 

 yellow. {Bl.) 



Seas of Batavia and Sumatra. 



32. Caranx stellatus. 

 Eydoux (§• Smdeyet, Voy. Bonite, Zoul. i. p. 167. pi. 3. f. 2. 



D. 8 I ^. A. 2 1 3^. L. lat. 30. 



The teeth in both the jaws form a single series. The height of 

 the body is 3| in the total length, the length of the head 4|. The 

 snout is rather obtuse, with the lower jaw a little longer than the 

 upper. The upper profile is much more convex than the lower. 

 Breast scaly ; the lateral line is slightly bent, and becomes straight 

 in the veiiical from the eleventh dorsal ray. Dorsal and anal fins 

 pointed. Bodr with scattered brown specks ; pectorals blackish. 

 {Eyd. 6f Soul.) 



Sandwich Islands. 



33. Caranx malabaricus. 



Scomber malabaricus, Bl. Sclm. p. 31. 

 Russell, p. 37. pi. 150. 



Caranx cseruleo-pinnatus, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 100, and N. W. Fische, 

 p. 47. tcif. 13. f. 2 (not Oir.). 



